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The Glendale City Council recently approved a development agreement for a new, multi-million dollar manufacturing facility in a partnership between manufacturer Ball Corporation, Red Bull and Rauch Fruit Juices.

On Sunday, an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed, killing all 157 passengers on board. Both this crash, and a Lion Air crash in Indonesia six months ago that killed 189 passengers, occurred on Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes.

Voters will choose a new mayor and possibly two new council members. The runoff election for mayor is between Kate Gallego and Daniel Valenzuela. The winner will serve the remainder of Greg Stanton’s term.

Most Americans do not think colleges and universities should consider an applicant’s race when determining whether or not they accept that applicant into the school. These results arrive against the backdrop of a legal case in Boston over the role race plays in admissions policies at Harvard.

Those empty tree wells along Phoenix's light rail lines will soon have a new sapling to hold. The Public Transit Department will fill the wells and replace some of the damaged palo verde and mesquite trees up and down the light rail system with a heartier pistache tree.

Dolphinaris Arizona, the dolphin attraction located on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Reservation that shuttered after the deaths of four dolphins in its first two years of operation, is officially not reopening.

The idea of the itinerant bard is often romanticized in film and fiction, moving from town to town and singing for their supper. That’s the life singer-songwriter Savannah King chose when she gave up a rooted existence for one on the open road.

After a busy week last week, lawmakers came back to the Arizona Capitol on Monday to get back to work in committee and on the floor — and there appears to be a real impasse between Gov. Doug Ducey and Republicans in the Legislature over tax conformity.

President Trump rolled back a policy having to do with how the U.S. reports the number of people killed in drone strikes outside of designated combat zones. Rescinding the measure lets the CIA carry out strikes in secret, without publishing how many people were killed and how many were civilians.

Private prisons currently house roughly 75 percent of the country’s immigrant detainees. And in recent years, entities supporting the private prison industry have been feeling the pressure of increasing public scrutiny.

Police say a shooting has occurred outside a long-term care facility in Phoenix where an incapacitated woman was raped last year. Hacienda HealthCare officials said in a statement the suspect is an employee's ex-spouse who showed up armed around 5:30 a.m.

The U.S. and Mexico have become the promised land for many Venezuelans escaping from their current government. But when the political and humanitarian crisis escalated in the South American nation, Mexico and the U.S. faced each other with different diplomatic approaches.→ More News From The Fronteras Desk